mail header standards

[Thomas M Link]

In article <1990Jul28.034222.28173 at sun.soe.clarkson.edu> levericw at clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
>I am looking for a standard that will tell me what info goes in the header of
>E-Mail.  I remember on from working on the ELM mailer, but I don't have 
>access to that anymore.  Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
 
what you want is: Request for Comments (RFC) #822

It is THE standard.

RFC #822 -- STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES
by David H. Crocker

This is available via anonymous ftp to many sights including:

ai.utoronto.ca             128.100.1.65   
allspice.lcs.mit.edu       18.26.0.115   
aramis.rutgers.edu         128.6.4.2      
flash.bellcore.com         128.96.32.20  
coll.,gatech.edu           36.8.0.118    
hubcap.clemson.edu         192.5.219.1  
lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu   128.2.13.21 
marvin.cs.buffalo.edu      128.205.32.4   
merit.edu                  35.1.1.42      
spot.colorado.edu          128.138.238.1  
sri-nic.arpa               10.0.0.51      
xx.lcs.mit.edu             18.26.0.36    
pitt.edu                   130.49.1.254

Or I can mail it to you if you don't have access to these

Tom Link